By Karen Byko, special to Charleston Currents | Separated and confined to my yard, excluding the short walks around my neighborhood with the dogs, I have had to challenge myself to rediscover the extraordinary gifts of beauty that surround me every day.
On my walk this morning, my attention was captured by a tiny splash of color in the patch of dry, dusty grass growing just next to the road. Kneeling down, I happened to glance up and see my neighbor across the street slowly walking around her yard spraying RoundUp. I wondered if I took the time to show her how glorious, how exquisite, these little “weeds” were, if she would feel differently? When I looked up again, she was gone.
A quote to keep in mind:
“For most of us, knowledge of our world comes largely through sight, yet we look about with such unseeing eyes that we are partially blind. One way to open your eyes to unnoticed beauty is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?”
~ Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder
Karen Byko lives in Sullivan’s Island.
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